Joining Line Segments

The line looks like it's connected, but it's not. When I apply the brush effect it becomes disjointed. I want it to be one smooth stroke. Is there any way to join the line segments without having to redraw the stroke? I ask this because the line was imported into Illustrator from Flash, there are many more and I don't want to have to redraw them all. Thanks in advance for any help.

Bob,
Hopefully, you can:
1. Deselect the path and then drag across each set of Anchor Points where the brushes go thin;
2. Object>Path>Join.
If you select the lot before 1+2, and look in the Layers palette, or open Window>Document Info, and select Objects in the flyout menu, you should be able to see that there are multiple paths; the latter shows the number of points in each selected object.
If 1 + 2 do (or should it be does) not work, there are probably multiple Anchor Points at the end(s) of either/both of the paths to be joined; the surplus should be deleted.
Or the paths may be grouped, and should be ungrouped first; that may also be seen in the Layers palette/Document info.

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R o b wrote:
after some further tests I found out that the cause of the issue seems to be the application I used for viewing my road network.
I displayed the view in SQLDeveloper and with FME and both look fine - result is expected (for view 2 and 3). But initially I used a different package for checking the view visually.
Yes, that can happen sometimes. Currently I've been working with one of the biggest GIS-applications out there, and I have noticed that especially when zooming in or out rapidly gaps appear between lines (when I know for certain that there are no gaps - because I checked). It's weird that, but it can trick you into believing things are not right.
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Stefan - thanks for yopur reply:
- I need the roads not road segements when displaying the data in our GIS system, most users want a road not single segements
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